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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
Stokely Carmichael

Meaning of "hard put" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD PUT

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WHAT DOES HARD PUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hard put in the English dictionary

The definition of hard put in the dictionary is scarcely having the capacity.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD PUT

hard luck
hard mint candy
hard money
hard neck
hard of hearing
hard pad
hard palate
hard paste
hard porn
hard power
hard right
hard rock
hard roe
hard rubber
hard sauce
hard science
hard scientist
hard sell
hard shoulder
hard standing

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD PUT

autoput
cajeput
cajuput
caput
direct input
gross output
input
input/output
kaput
lilliput
occiput
output
put
put-put
Rajput
shot put
stay put
throughput
thruput
voice input

Synonyms and antonyms of hard put in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hard put» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD PUT

Find out the translation of hard put to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard put from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard put» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

很难再
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

put duro
570 millions of speakers

English

hard put
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुश्किल डाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وضع الصعب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

затруднении
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

put duro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড রাখা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

a du mal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meletakkan keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fest Put-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハードプット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하드 넣어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard put
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đặt cứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடினமாக வைக்கவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हार्ड ठेवले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Zor koymak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

put duro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trudno umieścić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

скруті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pune greu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρό τεθεί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hard put
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hårda put
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hardt put
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard put

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD PUT»

The term «hard put» is regularly used and occupies the 83.351 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD PUT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard put

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3 QUOTES WITH «HARD PUT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hard put.
1
Stokely Carmichael
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
2
Dabney Coleman
To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
3
Raymond E. Feist
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD PUT»

Discover the use of hard put in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard put and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rode Hard, Put Up Wet
Working up a hot, sticky sweat is pure pleasure with a hard-riding cowboy--ortwo--in James' sizzling romantic novel.
Lorelei James, 2008
2
Rode Hard, Put Away Dead
Until Trade learns about another murder in town the same night Abby died ... a development that may bring the investigation -- and Trade -- to the very deadest of ends. From the Paperback edition.
Sinclair Browning, 2009
3
Ridden Hard--Put Up Wet
Serially published in 2001 by "American Western Magazine," these stories follow the life of Tom Geiger as he reaches adulthood.
Fredrick W. Boling, 2002
4
A Collection of Confusible Phrases
(Austral) a popular name of the grey- crowned babbler: From their habit of associating in flocks, they are known as the 'Twelve Apostles', a name also shared in some parts with that of 'Happy Family'. hard at it hard put to it hard at it very busy; ...
Yuri Dolgopolov, 2004
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Hangover Wisdom, 100 Thoughts on Rode Hard, Put Up Wet, from ...
In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "Rode Hard, Put Up Wet.
Daniel Harfoot, 2013
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Nuevo Método del Doctor Enrique Ollendorff para aprender a ...
Is not that man hard put to it to live?— Ha is indeed hard put to for he is very poor. — Was that boy hard put to it? — He was hard put to it for the dogs followed close . -Will you be hard put to to lind a living in that country.— 1 shall be very bard ...
H. G. Ollendorff, 1851
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The royal dictionary abridged in two parts: I. French and ...
(rj* To be hard put to it for a Livelihood, Avoir bien de la peine à vivre. * j" Tirer le Diable par la queue. Q^" To be hard at Work, Etre en train de travailler. rfj- He is ? . Man that works hard , II pr end beaucoup de peine, c'eß un homme laborieux.
Abel Boyer, 1728
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The Royal Dictionary: Abridged in Two Parts, I French and ...
03* To be hard put to it or a Livelihood, Avoir bien le la peine л vivre, i* -j* Tier le Diable par la queue. Q^* Го be hard at Work, Etre en rain de travailler, (fj* He is Man that works hard , 11 rend beaucoup de peine, c'eß un •irr.me laborieux. çtfj" It ...
Abel Boyer, 1728
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
[Second half of 1600s] Also see HARD TIME, def. 2. hard on someone's heels 9See AT sOMEoNE's HEELs. hard pressed Overburdened, put upon, as in With all these bills to pay we find ourselves hard pressed. [c. 1800] hard put, be ...
Christine Ammer, 2013
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Eleventh Edition
1931) : PORCELAIN 1 hard pine n (1865) : a pine (as longleaf pine or pitch pine) that has hard wood and leaves usu. in groups of two or three; also '. the wood of a hard pine hard-pressed \'hard-'prest\ adj (1825) : HARD PUT; also : being ...
‎2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD PUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hard put is used in the context of the following news items.
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Of debt and pride - The Tribune
It is a humiliating bargain, no doubt, and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be hard put to sell it to the Greeks in general and his coalition ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Revisiting shaken baby syndrome
Anybody who has seen a prosecution expert shake a doll until its head snaps back and forth would be hard put to believe that a college football ... «Cortez Journal, Jul 15»
3
Improving Estimates, Robot Bother, Robotics Nations, and Potential …
We don't yet understand how and why we ourselves care and bother, so we'd be hard put to install that capacity inside our robot vacuum ... «O'Reilly Radar, Jul 15»
4
Visiting young musicians gave us two brilliant performances
On a sunlit summer evening you would be hard put to come across a more joyous demonstration of youthful musical brilliance. And whilst the ... «Lynn News, Jul 15»
5
McNeil aiming for outright series win
Victory in the final heat at Echuca on Monday aboard Just Too Hard put McNeil in equal first with Jackie Beriman who will miss Saturday's ... «Bloodstock.com.au, Jul 15»
6
UN chief urges flexibility, compromise at development summit …
... bilateral and plurilateral engagements, negotiators have been hard put get an agreement on what the new agreement should actually commit ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
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allAfrica.com: Nigeria: A Recompense for Profligacy
... week in a magnanimous gesture ,approved a bailout package involving N713.7 billion, for states which are hard put to meet salary obligation ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
8
All-round Bangladesh complete dominating win
the plethora of bangladeshi fans coming to the fore in the commentating, but u would be hard put to call them the cream of the stock; they're ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
9
Two Harper Lee novels serve as bookends to racial change
“If somebody had told me that the South Carolina Senate and House would take down the Confederate flag, I would have been hard put to ... «Joplin Globe, Jul 15»
10
The floods and the presidentiables
One is hard put to forget the debacle that was Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, and how the Interior Secretary did not only mess up the ... «The Manila Times, Jul 15»

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